Our Green Building Activities

Many of our business segments are recognized as leaders in their fields and for their commitment to green building.

• Weyerhaeuser Real Estate Company's five homebuilder subsidiaries are at the forefront of building energy-efficient homes. During 2007, we assessed green building practices across our homebuilding subsidiaries. We further supported the adoption of green building by taking a leadership role in developing a National Green Building Standard by the National Association of Home Builders.
• Pardee Homes builds houses in Las Vegas, Nev.; Los Angeles and San Diego, Calif. Pardee offers homebuyers the option of Energy Star homes, which are at least 30 percent more efficient than homes built to standard federal building codes. In addition to conventional energy-saving features, Pardee offers photovoltaic systems in many neighborhoods, and its Living Smart program helps buyers understand the benefits of living in sustainably built homes. Pardee has developed nine neighborhoods named Green Project or Sustainable Community of the Year since 2001.

Efforts such as these have earned Pardee several awards including:

• Special recognition from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for "sustained excellence" in the Energy Star program. Pardee has been named "Energy Partner of the Year" for four straight years.
• An award for Production Home Builder of the Year in the 2006 National Green Building Awards program sponsored by the National Association of Home Builders.

Additional accomplishments of Weyerhaeuser's homebuilders include:

• Quadrant Homes was the first major Washington state homebuilder certified as an Energy Star builder. And it was the first Seattle-area builder certified as Built Green, with a three-star rating given by the Master Builders Association of King and Snohomish counties.
• Trendmaker Homes was one of the first Energy Star builders in its Houston, Texas, market.
• Winchester Homes is taking the lead as an Energy Star builder in Virginia and Maryland, where fewer than 5 percent of builders have adopted the program. Every one of Winchester's new luxury-class Camberley Homes will be built to Energy Star standards.

Innovations bring green building concepts to customers:

• Our iLevel™ business's NextPhase™ Site Solutions dramatically reduces job site waste and increases construction site efficiency. The package of software, products, equipment and services delivers customized home plans and premanufactured panel sections directly to builders.
• In early 2007, we partnered with Cherokee Investment Partners and donated structural framing materials to build the National Homebuilding Mainstream GreenHome™ in Raleigh, N.C. This home will provide the average homebuilder with a model for residential green building that reduces energy usage and uses products from renewable, sustainably managed resources.